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title: צְרוּעָה — Zeruah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צְרוּעָה (6871), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Zeruah. BDB 1906: n.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צְרוּעָה

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«צְרוּעָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zeruah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 6871 · **BDB:** צְרוּעָה

### Glosses

\[was\].Zeruah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zeruah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6871/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6871/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. mother of Jeroboam 1 K 11:26, 𝔊A Σαρουα.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צְרוּעָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6871/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 11:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.26/)

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וְיָרָבְעָם֩ בֶּן־נְבָ֨ט אֶפְרָתִ֜י מִן־הַצְּרֵדָ֗ה וְשֵׁ֤ם אִמּוֹ֙ צְרוּעָה֙ אִשָּׁ֣ה אַלְמָנָ֔ה עֶ֖בֶד לִשְׁלֹמֹ֑ה וַיָּ֥רֶם יָ֖ד בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and Jeroboam the.son of.Nebat an.Ephrathite from (the) Zeredah and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Zeruah a.woman a.widow a.servant of Solomon and he.raised a.hand on the king

*JPS 1917:* And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.

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